An award winning and fantastically funny retelling of medieval classic The Green Knight with the subtext made text! (Spoiler alert: it’s gay). A classic Christmas game ends in Sir Gawain being peer-pressured into chopping off the Green Knight's head. Now he has to let the miraculously still-alive Green Knight return the favour. Disaster! King Arthur reckons Gawain needs to be more masculine and there's nothing manlier than a good head chopping off... so there's really no way out. Created by critically acclaimed and award winning storyteller Niall Moorjani and co-directed with Cecily Nash. Fresh from a packed 5 star run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This adaptation fabulously queers and modernises an Arthurian classic and is an excellent alternative for anyone looking for panto-esk festive joy without the capitalism and nonsense.
Tobi King Bakare and this theatre deserve a shout-out for such a young, diverse audience. There is so much talk about audiences being full of over 60s and why, why can’t theatres get the crowds in to reflect society in general? Well, I’m happy to say that on a rainy Thursday evening, the theatre was completely full.
Caiti Grove on Before I Go in CPT's Spring 2023 season London Theatre Reviews
